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In the corner of the studio, Campanaro’s own books and magazines are stacked beneath the line of pillows she launched last year, as well as a series of illustrations of the letters in “Eskayel” that she once used in a trade show booth. “I made them for the Architectural Digest show,” she says. “Everyone else’s booth signs always look so cheesy and corporate, so I tried to decorate mine like it was a home instead of a booth. First I wanted to make pillows out of the letters, so I painted the whole alphabet; then I wanted to design wallpaper made from the titles of all my favorite songs. I never did either, but it did lead to a new side project I'm working on where I use song lyrics to make patterns for a super-commercial market — it has nothing to do with Eskayel.”